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Yar, you be here: Babe - DTS > Customer Reviews Babe - DTS Customer Reviews (1 - 3 of 31 Reviews)Beware, sensitive folks and youngsters
Bambi/Old Yeller/Dumbo tearjerkers repel me. We bought Babe after a decade of avoiding it, but the previews were so cute and there wasn't a hint of darkness, puppies and piggy laughing together! A crowing duck! Babe starts with a scene in which his mother is carted off to the slaughterhouse in a MEAT truck. Sheesh. On the farm we see bloody hatchets and meat hooks, and dogs ravaging and killing an old sheep named Maa that Babe has become attached to, and there is much discussion of animals headed for the dining room table. The second movie Babe, a Pig in the City, centers on a group of dogs and cats abandoned by their owners to starve in the streets, and their subsequent capture and imprisonment at a medical lab run by jack-booted thugs. Ham-fisted? Yes. If you buy this for the kids to watch after Christmas dinner, don't serve duck or ham, please. A Tasteful, Nice Movie You'll Like and Your Child Will Learn From
I saw Babe figuring it would be cute, not knowing much else about it. It is a very nice movie, not insulting but also--interestingly--not depressing, in its sadder parts (Maa the Sheep namely). The border collies are so much like my own that I was immediately entranced. (They live, so don't fear being depressed, dog lovers!) The movie is well filmed and very tasteful, old fashioned but somehow it never in any way beats you over the head. Babe is a cute pig and a symbol of ironic good luck if there ever was one. Without gloom, the movie bluntly addresses the fact that he might just as easily have wound up on a human plate. The plot seems a bit simple and does leave a huge opening for a sequel, in that we don't see Babe grow older or have a major life change. James Cromwell is always a fine actor and his near-silent Farmer Hoggett neither oozes compassion nor meanness. A really nice touch is the subplot about the male border collie's past, how he lost most of his hearing. We also get to see a busload of baby border collies frolic and question Babe. It took me back to two litters of Labs I raised in my twenties. The movie may make you cry but it never lingers on its sadder themes and ends up leaving a satisfying feeling...though it seems rather short. The ending is obvious but only suffers from an abrupt "The End." I haven't seen the sequel but probably will, especially if it has the collies and Cromwell in it! You want to know what became of the characters. Don't be surprised if you give up pork after this movie. Whoever devised the tale seems to drive home the point that pigs are far too intelligent and feeling to be food. Personally, I can't eat pork, and this movie reminds me of why! AWFUL MOVIE!!!!!
This is the worst movie ever!I can not explain in words how bad this movie is.I give Babe 1 million points for really bad aciting,really bad charters,and really bad story.It's hard to belive this movie won an award.I can't belive I wasted my life watching this bad film.
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